Cellista

Cellista is a composer and aerialist crafting immersive stage poems where cello, silence, image, and flight converge. Rooted in resistance art and inspired by the surrealism of Jean Cocteau, her work explores rupture, exile, and transformation while dissolving borders between performer and audience, music and movement, story and space. From Lincoln Center to film and gallery installations, her performances invite audiences into a living, breathing work of art.

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In a region known for disrupting the status quo, Cellista is celebrating the legacy of the original disruptors.

Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News
Cellista, is a performer who doesn't believe in the stage. She's all about bringing people together, and the separation a stage creates between the artist and the audience is counterproductive to that goal.

Westword, Denver
…inspired by seeing a show “Finding San Jose” by a cellist multimedian called Cellista. It got my head loose, a good thing. Film, ballet, recorded music, in a small space in Japantown here in San Jose. Struggling art, the frail green shoot that cracks the sidewalk.

Randy Rucker, mathematician, author and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement
Classical-based punk and hip-hop, wrapped in a gothic string section that causes hypnotic effects to the listener. In a nutshell that is what this release Transfigurations presents in a tour de force of styles.”

Kevin Burke, The Takeover